Messages by Desiring God

John Piper | With sin came shame and hostility in marriage. Only God’s Son can give comfort and restore peace in covenant-keeping love.

Marriage is about keeping a covenant — just like Jesus does with his bride, the church.

The only way that God, the righteous judge, can award us with a crown of righteousness is that Christ took our sin on himself at the cross and gave us his righteousness.

White abortionists kill more black and Hispanic babies than they do white babies every year. Abortion is a racist institution.

There are several reasons why we must be engaged in the fight for life, and the various aspects of Christ’s work in redemption directly relate to the efforts of the pro-life cause.

Marking the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of legal slave trading in Britain.

Live in God's word and in prayer, and you will be strengthened to defeat the devil.

Satan will certainly remind you of your sinful failures. But Christ has defeated both the devil and sin to give you a redeemed passion.

God calls us to risk for the cause of Christ. But a risk is never truly a risk when God holds you in his hand.

God’s lavish invitations to ask him for good things, with the promise that he will give them, is unimaginably wonderful.

John Piper | Jesus is worthy of praise because he is the eternal Son of God who became flesh and died our death that we might live. To God be glory through Jesus.

John Piper | God’s glory shines throughout his word and in the world. To ignore it is to tragically miss the most beautiful and joyful reality in the universe.

John Piper | God is infinitely able to know the best possible outcome of any situation and then achieve it.

The greatest aim in this world is that Christ would be seen as glorious among all peoples by the means of Christian obedience flowing from faith.

John Piper | God uses his gospel to strengthen believers so that they will persevere in faith and draw all attention to his glory.

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John Piper | Bitterness and impatience may seem like frightful enemies, but when we lay claim to Scripture’s promises, we can take seeming setbacks in faith that God himself is at work for our good.

John Piper | If lust is left unchecked, it will choke the life from your soul. But God has given us great and precious promises that far surpass anything sexual pleasure has to offer.

John Piper | Battling covetousness and greed isn’t just a matter of self-denial, but trusting God that he will be for you something infinitely greater than money or stuff.

John Piper | When anxieties and struggles with sin inevitably rise up against us, the best strategy for fighting back is trusting believing specific promises of Scripture.

John Piper | Looking forward to God’s promises of our future reward empowers us to faithfulness and sacrificial love here and now.

John Piper | God’s eternal promises don’t just help us gain eternal perspective, but actually empowers us to walk in Spirit-led obedience today.

John Piper | Gratitude can only take us so far in the Christian life. To keep pressing on in holiness, we need to hold onto God’s promises, and pursue them in faith.

John Piper | Grace isn’t only God’s forgiving disposition to save us, but daily power for living, as we hope fully in all that he promises to be for us in Jesus Christ.

John Piper | Holiness isn’t optional in the Christian life. Salvation is ever by grace through faith, but genuine saving faith always works by love.